LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Jurors deciding the fate of a former Little Rock police officer who fatally shot a teenage burglary suspect will resume deliberations Sunday after being unable to reach a verdict.

They received Josh Hastings’ manslaughter case Saturday morning and were sent home after about seven hours, with orders to return late Sunday morning.

Hastings confronted 15-year-old Bobby Moore III and two other teenage boys who were in a car with him last August in an apartment complex parking lot. The officer shot Moore dead, but said he had feared for his life as Moore drove toward him at 13 mph.

During closing arguments Saturday at Pulaski County Circuit Court, lawyers asked the jurors to decide what the reasonable outcome should have been. Hastings faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $10,000 if convicted.

Prosecutors said Moore had stopped or slowed, and may have already had the car in reverse, when Hastings shot him in the chest and head.

“He wanted to make an arrest even though backup was on the way,” assistant prosecutor Emily Abbott told jurors. “There was no reason to shoot.”

Hastings was fired after investigators couldn’t confirm the officer’s claim that Moore’s car continued forward onto large rocks before rolling backward with Moore slumped over the passenger seat. The other two in the car said Moore was preparing to back up when Hastings fired his gun three times.

“He shoots into the car three times to keep them from getting away,” said Chief Deputy Prosecutor John Johnson, who cautioned that if Hastings’ work is the standard for law enforcement, “what we’re headed for is a police state.”

Defense lawyer Bill James said Hastings was justified — though the officer was not allowed to raise self-defense as an argument. Manslaughter is defined as recklessness, while defending oneself in an actual threat is considered reasonable.

Hastings could not argue that he acted recklessly in a reasonable way.

“Self-defense is not a defense in this case,” Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen told jurors.

James said the boys knew police had arrived and attempted to get away to avoid getting caught.

“Of the four people in this case, three were breaking the law, one was doing his job,” James said. The boys had been breaking into cars “like bears going around campsite to campsite,” he said, until Hastings confronted them.

“When people see police step out and say ‘Stop,’ they stop,” James said. “That’s what reasonable people do. Moore, however, had every motive to move toward Hastings. The last thing they wanted was to get caught.”